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Items of significant personal value have been stolen from a Lincoln mum’s grave over the weekend.

Some time between Friday, August 8, and Sunday, August 10, two silver birds, a heart-shaped cast iron bird bath, a plant pot with flowers and a wind-charm were taken from the grave in Newport cemetery.

The theft was discovered during a visit to the cemetery at 4pm on August 10.

The grave belongs to a Lincoln woman Anne Goddard, who had passed away on June 24, and daughter Rachael is warning other visitors to the cemetery to remain vigilant.

She said: “My mum only passed away recently from a very long cruel illness, Alzheimer’s.

“Until we got a headstone sorted I placed these birds on where the headstone will be, I visit every weekend as my brother Jamie is also in there and has the identical items on his, which I am pleased to say are still in place.

“It’s a sad world we live in sometimes,” she said.

Police are asking for anyone who has seen the items or witnesses suspicious activity to contact the 101 number, quoting incident number 100 of August 11.

makes me sick my baby girl is in newport and between july 27th and 8th august last year she had a pot donkey stolen off her grave which had been on her grave for 12 years. back in 2001 when she was 1st laid to rest things were stolen all the time and it was kids I spent hours in there until I found them, nothing the police could do but I paid the parents a visit and explained to the children how upsetting it was this did stop it, they didn't realise they were doing anything wrong as they were taking things off graves that had lots of things and putting them on graves with nothing, :-(. it just makes me so angry when mindless sic people just take stuff because they feel like it. I believe in karma..